“But I was always comfortable on stage. One-on-one conversations terrified me, but performing in front of an audience felt natural,” she says. Despite this, music and poetry were always present in her ...

Prerana Malla could be the first Nepali woman to reach Kora La by motorbike, and she wants other women to do the same.

Nepali, Santali, Urdu, or any other Indian language, he said. “The multi-language policy is designed to empower students with choice, promote national unity, and preserve India’s rich ...

Get the best of the Pacific in your inbox!

I don’t want to be branded as someone with links to any political party. Can’t I be just a Nepali?” Dambar Khatiwada, a Left-leaning writer and proponent of alternative politics, says the ...

Poaching and infrastructure - Nepali authorities have confiscated 33 red panda hides from smugglers in the past five years, a drop from 70 hides from 2011-15. "The number of red panda hides being ...